One thing Ellen Alpsten and husband Tobias always had in common was their passion for Provence and châteaux – and, after much hard work, they now have a baroque gem in Vaucluse

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GROWING up in a mansion house in Ireland, writer Gabrielle Mullarkey would drift off to sleep with the sheets pulled up to her eyes as nocturnal noises echoed through the old building. Often, the stai

THE sun is blazing down from a cloudless blue sky as I arrive at The Myrtles, a historic plantation in the town of St Francisville, Louisiana, around 30 miles north of the city of Baton Rouge. On such

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